Open-source system helps victims cope with disasters
IBM Philippines and the National Disaster Coordinating Council, came together in Guinsaugon to try out new equipment, as well as the Sahana open source disaster management system that IBM donated…
Santa Cruz Exec, 1999: Linux Hasn't Hurt SCO, It's Helped Us
You won't believe this. A Groklaw member, Jeff Best, has turned up a 1999 CNET article by Stephen Shankland, quoting a Santa Cruz executive saying that Linux not only wasn't hurting SCO -- it was…
Open Country Announces Partnership with Turbolinux
Open Country, a next-generation systems management software company, today announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Turbolinux, Inc., a global provider of Linux-based solutions,…
Fedora Infrastructure Leader Chosen
I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in December. Those of you who are active contributors…
Internet Explorer 7 on Linux
"The following documents the relatively short process needed to get Internet Explorer 7 running on a Linux system. So far, I have found one (two) problems with this method: it seems transparent…
Motorola RIZR Z6, Linux based music phone
Motorola has had a mostly quiet CES but there were a few announcements at CEO Ed Zander's keynote speech this morning. The most interesting of which is the Motorola RIZR Z6 which looks like a…
Open-source encryption utility frustrates phishers
As far as encryption software goes, TrueCrypt may be one of the best open-source gems and least-recognized software offerings on the market. The CRN Test Center considers the utility, now at…
ClearApp Announces Linux Mainframe Platform Certification
ClearApp, the only company offering Application Performance Management (APM) Automation(TM) for portal, J2EE and SOA applications, today announced that ClearApp's QuickVision 6.0 performance…
Second Life to go Open Source
Aiming to take advantage of its already-impressive momentum, San Francisco's Linden Lab, developer of the Second Life virtual online world, will announce Monday that it is taking the first major…
EU withdraws claim that Linux support is illegal
The European Union has blamed a translation mistake for its claim that it cannot legally support Linux.
As reported last week, the EU had claimed that Linux users could not legally view its…